100 STRANGERS

#9. Amanda

#9. 'People ask me that all the time.' That is, how a native Hawaiian moved from a place surrounded by oceans to Madison - far from any oceans - to study Oceanography? However, that's exactly what Amanda did.

She is in her first year of the oceanography graduate program. When I meet up with her on Memorial Union's Terrace she was reviewing some of the basics of the science. Someday she wants to work on using the ocean as a form of alternative energy, and told me that Hawaii just started doing it.

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